#First Keystone

[reasonsforhope]

"A tribal-led nonprofit is creating a network of native bison ranchers that are restoring ecosystems on the Great Plains, restoring native ranchers’ connections with their ancestral land, and restoring the native diet that their ancestors relied on.

Called the Tanka Fund, they coordinate donors and partners to help ranchers secure grazing land access, funds needed to install and repair fencing, increase their herd sizes, and access markets for bison meat across the country.

That’s the human part of the story. But as Dawn Sherman, executive director of the Tanka Fund, told Native Sun News, they’re “buffalo people” and these four-legged, 2,000 lbs. “cousins” are equal-part-protagonists.

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet, of which just 1% remains as it was when the Mayflower arrived.

“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem. We know that the buffalo is a keystone species,” said Dawn Sherman, a member of the Lakota, Delaware, Shawnee, and Cree.

“Bringing the buffalo back to the land and to our people, helps restore the ecosystem and everything it supports from the animals to the plants to the people. It’s come full circle. That’s how we see it.”

As Sherman and the Tanka Fund help native ranchers grow their operations, everyone is well aware of the power of the bison to transform the environment: just as nations across Europe are, who are reintroducing wood bison to various ecosystems, for all the same reasons.

Sherman points out the variety of ways in which buffalo anchor the prairie ecosystem. The almost-extinct black-footed ferret, she points out, lived symbiotically with the bison, and with the latter gone, the former followed—nearly.

The long-billed curlew uses bison dung as a disguise to hide nests from predators. Deer, pronghorn antelope, and elk all rely on bison to plow through deep snows and uncover the grasses that these smaller animals can’t reach.

Everywhere the bison hurls its massive body, life springs in the beast’s wake. When bison roll about on the plains, it creates depressions known as wallows. These fill with rainwater and create enormous puddles where amphibians and insects thrive and reproduce. Certain plants evolved to grow in the wet conditions of the wallows which Native Americans harvested for food and medicine.

Native plants evolved under the trampling hooves of millions of bison, and that constant tamping down of the Earth is a key necessity in the spreading of native wildflower seed.

Indeed, Sherman says some of these native ranchers are bringing bison onto lands still visibly affected by the Dust Bowl, and already the animals are acting like a giant wooly cure-all for the land’s ills.

Since 2020, the Tanka Fund, in partnership with the Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council and the Nature Conservancy, has overseen the transfer of 2,300 bison from Nature Conservancy reserves to lands managed by ranchers within the Tanka Fund network.

“[T]he more animals that we can get the more of that prairie we can restore,” said Sherman. “We can help restore the land that has been plowed and has been leased out to cattle ranchers.”"

-Article via Good News Network, February 13, 2025. Video via Tanka Fund, July 17, 2024.

[ronnieartistry]

heir guitar?? in my 2025???

[zombirps]

Honestly the older I get the more I understand why sometimes children media doesn't have realistic endings to shows or movies.

Cause it's less about the ending- more about instilling values, or giving assurance to a child

Yeah did Steven Universe kind of handwave the whole 'genocidal diamonds' shit? Totally. But what lesson do you think is more important to give to a kid? 'All fascists need to die' or 'No matter how broken you are, you can still work to be a better person'?

A lot of the people who connected with SU were traumatized kids. Traumatized kids who often did shit they weren't supposed to, or were in abusive households where that sentiment really wasn't expressed. I think it's good to present a form of media that allows for that level of forgiveness, because if you grew up being made to feel guilty, it's easy to spiral into lethargy because you just feel like you can't get better.

So yeah. SU is bomb.

[simply-ivanka]

Remember?

[ouroboros-hideout]

Happy Birthday, Hound Dog

OTP: Like Napalm

inspired by a sketch @blackrevell did some while ago of Aon sitting at a campfire at a lake. I thought it might be nice if she didn't need to go there alone.

[bithand]

There's something to be said for Vauquelin initially intending to return the eluvians to Briala yet claiming them for himself by the end of DA:TV

[tinygameralec]

Tiny bit of very early Wuk Lamat feeling, behind the cut because potentially spoilery regardless:

I was initially very, very dubious about supporting Wuk Lamat. Not that she seemed like a bad person, just staggeringly naive! But in the small amount of Dawntrail story I've actually played now, she's grown on me a LOT.

She's the canditate who's focussed on people and their needs and their happiness. She's personable and warm and approachable, enthusiastic to learn about people and their culture and traditions, and in respecting them as best she can. Yes she's naive and silly, but I think she's going to grow out of that as she explores and meets more people.

At this point I feel like the ideal future for Tural would be her and Koana ruling together, honestly. He's very intelligent but also standoffish and uninterested in tradition. She's a bit of a dumbass, but she's also incredibly empathetic and wants to maintain peace. The two of them working together would be unstoppable!

[emin-folly]

Have some Silver Age Flash fluff

This is my first time posting anything of my writing, so I'm a bit nervous, ahah. This was a test to gauge my writing skills and how well I can mimic the Silver Age style~ The Flash and the Magnetic Menace - Anonymous - The Flash (Comics) [Archive of Our Own]

[loverboybrightsideghost]

just finished s1 on my relisten...damn this was just season one bruh they broke the world in SEASON ONE!!!

[swankpalanquin]

wheres the everybody knows shit's fucked video

[vintagedreamsofsennett]

released in Nov 24, 1913 / released in Feb 2, 1914

released in Mar 9, 1914 / released in Mar 26, 1914

released in Apr 4, 1914 / released in Apr 18, 1914

released in Apr 20, 1914 / released in Apr 27, 1914

released in Jun 11, 1914 / released in Nov 30, 1914

released in Dec 12, 1914 / released in Mar 4, 1915

[the-darkness-does-not-bargain]

One of my favorite aspects of Sinners how they use the musical scenes to build tension. Because they start out small, with just Sammy and Stack in the car, then the performance with Slim at the train station, and then working up to the scenes in the barn.

The first juke sequence is the most visually stunning, of course. It's chaotic but overwhelmingly positive, beautiful, and joyous. When we move to Pearline's song, things start to darken. The thumping stomps are timed with the twins beating the man with the loaded dice. We've already seen violence in the film, but this is a steep escalation intentionally set to music.

Then, we think the tension is going down when the ******** show up (no spoilers 🤫), but they are so immediately unsettling that we never feel at ease. Their music is sweet and their voices are soothing, but it's a front, one that fractures pretty quick but shatters completely with the Rocky Road to Dublin.

Rocky Road is a perversion of the first juke scene, twisting the joyful chaotic energy of the dance into a masterfully disturbing parody, where the full evil and madness (and twisting of spirituality) of the ******** is put on display.

It's just such a good way to build the narrative. I love love love how serious they were about making music the keystone of every filming decision.

[iamthepulta]

I feel like some corporate schmuck tacking that onto a goodwill post, but it really bothers me!! If the Left really wants to get votes and understand the people, "the people" are not driving around in Teslas. They are the people at Target, at QT, at Starbucks making your sandwiches and cleaning up used needles without proper PPE. :(

[3liza]

one of my favorite things about Tumblr is that unless you're following a literal brand account or someone who has their first and last name as their username, you can follow someone who's just funny or shares your interests or something for like four years before you find out they're actually a famous artist or have 2 million YouTube subscribers or wrote a book that's considered a keystone reference work in all modern scholarship or whatever. one of many reasons this is the superior social media experience, which is impressive considering how bad it is here

[batsandbirdbrains]

The one with the group chat mix up

I could see Dick in young justice having two phones, one for Dick Grayson and one for Robin. The problem is, one day he’s rushing at the end of his lunch period and he sees a text come in. It’s from Wally. Dick hasnt slept in three days and he’s having a horrible day at school and he’s so so tired and so so mad that he doesn’t even open the message, he just pulls it down to reply just as the warning bell for the next period rings.

Dude I fucking hate it here istg Swanson is my arch fucking nemesis. I’m literally a fucking nerd and the man is actually so fucking evil he’s making me HATE bio dude is beefing with a literal 13 year old wtf!! Also he insinuated that B is doing inappropriate things with me so I think I will actually ruin this man’s whole life, I know he sells weed to the loser band kids after school. If u have a chance pls convince ur uncle to convince b to send me to keystone with u bc I actually fucking HATE IT HERE and I hate this stupid uniform I hate it I hate it I hate it

And then he slams his locker shut and runs to his next class.

His phone has so many messages the next time he checks it that he thinks the world is ending. And then he opens it to see what’s going on and instead he feels like he wants to puke. Because he sent that message to the team group chat instead of directly to Wally.

He promptly deletes it from the group chat and responds to everyone’s worried messages with:

Oopsie sorry u saw nothing u know nothing if u took a screenshot delete it now or ill hack ur phone and delete it for u<3

He’s shitting bricks as he waits outside of school for Alfred to pick him up, and he hacks into all their phones immediately to check their screenshots. Thankfully no one actually took any photo evidence. Maybe his teammates aren’t so bad after all.

But they do all corner him when he sees them at Mount Justice next. They didn’t know he was 13. They all assumed he was 15 like Wally and he never corrected them. Wally was the only one who knew.

The cause of his rant? His biology teacher is an asshole to him. And also gave him detention earlier that day for wearing socks with a logo on them instead of one solid color (as stated in the Gotham Academy dress code). Any other teacher would’ve given a warning or just ignored it entirely. His biology teacher is particularly assholeish with him specifically. He’s implied several times that Dick only skipped a grade because Bruce paid the school off or smth, and he has insinuated more than once that Bruce adopted him to be a boy toy. He has been Dick’s arch nemesis all year and his goal for the year is to get the man fired or arrested, whichever comes first.

It takes Artemis like two weeks to put the pieces together and realize he goes tot he same school as her. She’s sitting in homeroom when it clicks and she immediately types in the group chat:

Artemis: WAIT YOU GO TO GOTHAM ACADEMY TOO??

Robin: no idea what ur talking abt<3

[totally-here]

dpxdc twins au except it's no-pulse flavored

Bart’s new roommate looks a lot like Tim. 

Like, suspiciously like Tim. 

Danny’s the same height, has the same shape of nose, same shade of hair, and even frowns like him. He would have been a perfect copy if he acted more like Tim, but Danny definitely holds himself looser than Bart’s ever seen Tim. 

But he still has his face. So, obviously, Bart has to investigate. Maybe he’s a clone, or a shapeshifter, or maybe one of the Gotham rogues decided to get facial reconstruction surgery to look like him, and this was all a ploy. 

Okay, probably not that last one. Bart doesn’t think Tim’s enemies know his identity. 

Anyway, investigation! Bart’ll figure this out himself, and deal with it if Danny needs to be dealt with. And the investigation will start right after he comes up with an excuse as to why he’s back in their third floor apartment when he passed Danny in the hallway a few seconds before. 

Danny stares at him, and Bart stares back. 

“Must’ve been a doppelganger!” Bart blurts out. 

Danny’s silent for a second before nodding enthusiastically and noting that everyone's supposed to have like seven in the world anyway and wow what a wild coincidence that there’s one in their building. 

Bart extends the same courtesy when a week later he walks in on Danny with an iced over pan on the stove. Danny says they should really get their freezer checked out and Bart agrees and asks if he can use the ice for a painting study. 

(They never get their freezer checked.)

Bart finds that Danny’s great at setting up fun things for him to draw, whether he knows it or not. Like the ice, or his collection of rocks, his astronomy textbooks with the pretty covers, his gestures as he rants about his classes, the excited glint in his eyes when he’s talking about his next repair project and how his eyes almost look like they glow in the right light. 

Hm. A good portion of his sketchbook is drawings of Danny, and yet he’s still having trouble with getting the right blue for his eyes. At first glance they’re Tim’s shade of blue, but when he keeps looking they seem to get lighter. Maybe greener?

He should probably stop staring into his friend’s eyes. 

Well, maybe not. Danny doesn’t seem to mind. 

Just like he doesn’t mind when they started regularly sitting very close on the couch, or falling asleep together, or Bart borrowing some of his jackets, or-

Okay, Bart’s kinda seeing a pattern. He and Danny should really have a conversation about if this is platonic behavior or not. 

But not right now, because Bart brought Danny across the river to raid Wally’s board game closet in Keystone. 

And Wally, who’s used to this, just passes by them with a, “Hey Bart, hey Tim.”

“Danny, not Tim,” Danny replies almost absent mindedly, then looks back at Wally, who’s also staring at him now. “Wait, you know Tim?”

“OhmyGod I was supposed to investigate!” Bart says, face palming. It just slipped his mind! And Danny was distracting him with his pretty face that he totally wears better than Tim!

“You know him too?” Danny asks. But he doesn’t look suspicious of them, more amused. 

“How do you know him?” Wally squints at Danny, eyes briefly catching Bart’s in question. 

“He’s my twin,” Danny answers easily. “The Drakes only wanted one kid, so they gave me to their friends the Fentons, who wanted a second one.” He shrugs and goes back to digging around the closet. “Tim and I were always in contact, though. Letters and phone calls and texting, you know?” 

He says it all so casually while Wally and Bart are sharing increasingly concerned looks behind his back. 

Do the Waynes know about Danny? Has Tim never brought him up? Why? Does Danny know about Red Robin? Does Tim-

“Holy shit does this mean Tim has ice powers too!?” 

Or: Tim and Danny are twins. Through a series of coincidences, the first people to find out that aren’t Fentons or Drakes are the flashes.

(This post was brought to you by me recently finishing the 1995 Impulse run, and wanting an excuse to share this panel:

Look they both got called twinks clearly they're soulmates)